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THE COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH 1 he success of Carbon County's high schools led many county students to institutions of higher education both in- and outside the state of Utah. As more and more students left home for codeges and universities far away, a small group of Carbon County residents began to develop plans for a two-year college within the county. Among them were school superintendents D.C. Woodward, WW Christensen, and G.J. Reeves. After Woodward's death in 1929, his successor, WW. Christensen, took up the junior college cause. Due to Christensen's influence, the Carbon County School Board and the Price City Council issued a resolution supporting a college.1 State senator Wdliam Mider, who moved to Carbon County from Emery County, began to discuss that issue in the state legislature.2 In 1933 Superintendent Christensen conducted a study that showed only 18 percent of students in the six counties of eastern Utah intended to pursue a college education, although over 80 percent wished they could go to codege.3 Also in 1933 the Utah Department of Education, through county superintendent W. W. Christensen, stated that it would be possible for students not near an institution of higher 290
